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RealmWorks CSV Import Tool

Farling said:
It is something that I was wondering how to present in the interface in a nice way (rather than cluttering up the main topic line with too many buttons.

I will be having a look at it after my holiday, in about a week's time :-)
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Sounds great, Farling. Personally I do not find the check boxes and small button that are on the alternate name lines too be too cluttered, and would be perfectly happy to have them carried over to the primary line, but that's just me.

Regardless, have a lovely holiday!
 
Hey there all,

I've discovered this tool, which could help me dramatically in importing all the planets I want to bring in Realmworks.

I have a nice long list of planetary names, which all are, inside Realmworks a "Planetary Body".

I've checked in the categories inside RW, and there is "Planetary Body". It's not a tag, and uses a standard Realm, no system associated with it. I've exported the full structure only but once in the CSV Import Tool, I can't find planetary body. After having checked it seems that a planetary body is an under sub section of "Location", which can be accessed.

But I can't reach Planetary Body.

Is there something that I missed ?
Thanks
 
Vampyre said:
Hey there all,

I've discovered this tool, which could help me dramatically in importing all the planets I want to bring in Realmworks.

I have a nice long list of planetary names, which all are, inside Realmworks a "Planetary Body".

I've checked in the categories inside RW, and there is "Planetary Body". It's not a tag, and uses a standard Realm, no system associated with it. I've exported the full structure only but once in the CSV Import Tool, I can't find planetary body. After having checked it seems that a planetary body is an under sub section of "Location", which can be accessed.

But I can't reach Planetary Body.

Is there something that I missed ?
Thanks
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The CSV2RW tool lists all the categories in a simple alphabetical order, it doesn't display the category hierarchy that is shown in Realm Works.

(I don't have the tool on this laptop to see what is actually displayed in the list of categories.)
 
Farling said:
The CSV2RW tool lists all the categories in a simple alphabetical order, it doesn't display the category hierarchy that is shown in Realm Works.

(I don't have the tool on this laptop to see what is actually displayed in the list of categories.)
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Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately, when the structure is loaded, I only find the main categories. Campaign Element, Cast List, Concept, Entity, Event List, Further information, GM Synopsys, General Abilities Article, General Article, General Character Article, General Dangers Article, General Equipment Article, General Game Mastering Article, General Gameplay Article, General Topic, Group List, Group : Commerce, Group : Criminal, Group : Ethnic, Group : Family, Group : Government, Group : Military, Group : Others, Group : Religious, Hazard, Incident, Individual, Inhabitant, Location, Malady / Affliction, Mechanics Galery, Mechanics Source, Monster / Enemy, Mundane Items, Mundane Protective Gear, Mundane Weapon, Named Object, Object Collection, Other List, Place List, Player Synopsys, Plot Hook, Plot Idea, Poison, Protective Property, Quest, Race / Species, Region : Celestial, Region : Dimensonial, Region : Geographical, Region : Political ...

When I look this list over in RealmWorks, I see this list :
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AohBg6HvI7Xxg4x25Jp30PkpA9lSMw

When you look at it closer, it looks like anything that is a level 2 (anything under Location, or Named Object), do not appear on the CSV Import Tool. It's not a lot of things that get into those, but Planetary Body is actually nested under Location, and only location appear. Unless... I'm missing an option out of RW, OR, that there is a bug within RW that do not export the level 2 structure ?

I don't know.
 
Vampyre, if you are able can you open up your structure file in a text editor (ideally notepad++ or similar, or Woodford) and search for the text planetary body. Hopefully you will find it, and it might have a slightly different name.

If not, then if you can send me the structure file I will have a look next weekend.
 
Thanks again for the fast answer.

It actually is inside the file.

<category_global category_id="Category_61" name="Planetary Body" global_uuid="2DB0297B-91C6-5D3A-00D0-6A935D3C6BA9">
 
V1.44 has been released

(As promised in post http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost.php?p=270647&postcount=380)

This fixes Vampyre's problem where sub-categories were not appearing in the category list.

It also implements JustinThomason's request for being able to set attributes on the topic/article's public name. (auto-accept, case-matching, match-priority and show-in-nav-pane)

The "Auto Correct" option in the case-matching menu has been renamed to "Correct" so that the field isn't so wide on the screen.
 
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@Farling : I'm sorry for the long delay since my last post... Thank you very much for your help on this one ! Thank you !
 
I've exported a structure file and can see the following entry in the tag domain section:

Code: 
        <domain domain_id="Domain_22" name="Ethnic Group" abbrev="Ethnic Gro"
            original_uuid="AF009BB6-3E88-BFA3-7DE0-689326546BA9" signature="1904">
            <tag tag_id="Tag_146" name="aaa-test-01" match_priority="Normal"
                original_uuid="6F079BB6-3E88-BFA3-7DE0-689326546BA9" signature="1905"/>
        </domain>

I have a CSV file of ethnicity names (such as "Italian") to append where you see "aaa-test-01". However, I cannot see where to drag that column of names from the left (CSV) side to the right (XML) side of the CSV import tool. I can only find ethnicity group in the "individual" category where it shows up as the tag domain for "ethnicity". But, that view is for import individuals (people), not the tags that define them. If I drag the column to "ethnicity", the import tool wants me to add a name for each individual who will be created (one for each ethnicity row). I've attached a copy of the structure file for review. Any suggestions?
 

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How many ethnicities do you have?

The tool isn't able to add new entries to an existing domain. It's primary purpose is to allow you to quickly create topics and articles from CSV/excel data.

Normally, a user would add additional entries manually to a domain before producing a structure export to be used for the topics that they will be importing.

If you are familiar with XML, then you could update your structure only file to include the additional tags. The minimum for each tag would be.

<tag tag_id="Tag_XXX" name="new name">
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Where Tag_XXX is unique across the entire file (start from the highest number + 1 already in the file and work upwards).
(Note that you should not include the original_uuid or signature attributes for your new tags.)

I don't know if you can import just a structure only file into an existing realm.
 
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I have over 400 ethnicities, which I might be able to cut down to 100. I'd rather not enter them by hand. Can you import a structure file into a new realm and them import existing content?
 
daudvyd said:
I have over 400 ethnicities, which I might be able to cut down to 100. I'd rather not enter them by hand. Can you import a structure file into a new realm and them import existing content?
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When you create a realm, you can provide the structure file to use to create it. You can then create an export file from your old realm, and then import that file into the new realm.

I don't know if you can load a structure file into an existing realm just to add the additional structure elements.
 
Farling said:
When you create a realm, you can provide the structure file to use to create it. You can then create an export file from your old realm, and then import that file into the new realm.

I don't know if you can load a structure file into an existing realm just to add the additional structure elements.
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I know it has been done. I don't know if it works reliably. I would suggest planning out your entire structure to the best of your ability so you can do one structure import and then make minor tweaks using the standard tools inside Realm Works.
 
Can you use the same structure file to add different excel files. I have three excel files and I'm trying to add them one at a time to my realm but the second file isn't actually importing.
 
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